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Is That My Child? the Brain Food Plan
Following the success of Dr Robin Pauc's "Is that My Child?", Dr Pauc demonstrates how nutrition and exercise can help children overcome many conditions from dyslexia and dyspraxia to ADHD and Tourette's Syndrome. The book includes easy-to-follow advice and information, from the effects nutrition can have on children's behaviour to how different types of exercise can benefit children in different ways. There are also lots of recipe ideas as well as practical exercise and diet workbooks for parents to chart their child's progress.
224 pages, Paperback
First published April 5, 2007
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May 30, 2021
Most of us would already have heard multiple times that everyone, especially children, should take a balanced diet, and that sugars and fatty foods should be avoided for a healthy life. We would also have come across various terms such as ADHD, OCD, Dyslexia, ADD, Hyperactivity etc. in the context of children’s developmental and behavioral issues. I remember a couple of years ago, my then 3-year-old was also labelled by his teacher as being hyperactive, and prone to ADHD in near future. We were quite worried upon finding that out and I cannot recall how many times we visited different child behavioral psychiatrists.
I wish we had read this book before that time.
This book is written by Dr. Robin Pauc & Carina Norris. Dr. Pauc studied, lectured, and taught clinical neurology internationally, before focusing on the learning and behavioral conditions of childhood. He has written several books including the bestselling Is That My Child? which deals with child learning difficulties. Carina Norris is a nutrition consultant, journalist, and the author of many books including three of the You Are What You Eat book series.
In this book, Dr. Pauc groups all the above-mentioned symptoms and calls them Developmental Delay Syndromes (DDS), and explains that they start to occur when there is a delay in brain development in a child. These symptoms prevail and intensify if the brain does not get the right nutrients, proper exercise and rest. He also explains how simple changes in the child’s diet, along with proper rest and the right exercise can help overcome these syndromes. Not just children with DDS, these simple changes can have an extremely positive impact on the health and well being of any child.
Before starting to read this book, I though that this is just another child-nutrition book, and that it would just stress on the importance of a balanced diet etc. But as soon as I started reading the book, I got hooked to it. I got to learn what different learning difficulties and their symptoms are, and what they could be caused by. Dr. Pauc has provided and illustrated both specific as well as general at-home exercises which can help children in their mind-body coordination. He also provides a detailed 14-day diet plan for children, along with recipes and diet workbooks. Various short case studies have also been added which prove his point about children overcoming their learning difficulties just by simple, at-home exercises and changes to diet. I found some really useful information in regards to how food affects the brain, moods and behavior, what sugar does to the brain, the importance of good fats and the harmful effects of junk and processed food, especially in children. There is also information around how to read and understand food labels so that foods with preservatives and other potentially harmful chemicals could be avoided.
I really liked Dr. Pauc’s overall writing style, it is easy to understand and even though he touches on topics like the functions of the two sides of the brain, the role of neurotransmitters, spindle cells etc., he has kept it apt and simple. There is a natural flow among the chapters, and the chapter names really grab the reader’s interest, and make them want to keep on reading. He has also given various helpful tips on how to slowly make children switch from bad to good diet.
However, since the book has a lot of useful information, most of which would need to be revisited time and again, I feel that it would have been quite helpful had such information been shown in summarized tables at the end of those chapters as well.
My wife and I have already started being much more mindful of the food that we consume, and have started slowly replacing packaged and processed foods with natural alternatives. I think that this book should be read and also kept as a reference guide by parents of growing children. This book serves as a comprehensive guide for anyone looking to facilitate their children’s proper growth.
I wish we had read this book before that time.
This book is written by Dr. Robin Pauc & Carina Norris. Dr. Pauc studied, lectured, and taught clinical neurology internationally, before focusing on the learning and behavioral conditions of childhood. He has written several books including the bestselling Is That My Child? which deals with child learning difficulties. Carina Norris is a nutrition consultant, journalist, and the author of many books including three of the You Are What You Eat book series.
In this book, Dr. Pauc groups all the above-mentioned symptoms and calls them Developmental Delay Syndromes (DDS), and explains that they start to occur when there is a delay in brain development in a child. These symptoms prevail and intensify if the brain does not get the right nutrients, proper exercise and rest. He also explains how simple changes in the child’s diet, along with proper rest and the right exercise can help overcome these syndromes. Not just children with DDS, these simple changes can have an extremely positive impact on the health and well being of any child.
Before starting to read this book, I though that this is just another child-nutrition book, and that it would just stress on the importance of a balanced diet etc. But as soon as I started reading the book, I got hooked to it. I got to learn what different learning difficulties and their symptoms are, and what they could be caused by. Dr. Pauc has provided and illustrated both specific as well as general at-home exercises which can help children in their mind-body coordination. He also provides a detailed 14-day diet plan for children, along with recipes and diet workbooks. Various short case studies have also been added which prove his point about children overcoming their learning difficulties just by simple, at-home exercises and changes to diet. I found some really useful information in regards to how food affects the brain, moods and behavior, what sugar does to the brain, the importance of good fats and the harmful effects of junk and processed food, especially in children. There is also information around how to read and understand food labels so that foods with preservatives and other potentially harmful chemicals could be avoided.
I really liked Dr. Pauc’s overall writing style, it is easy to understand and even though he touches on topics like the functions of the two sides of the brain, the role of neurotransmitters, spindle cells etc., he has kept it apt and simple. There is a natural flow among the chapters, and the chapter names really grab the reader’s interest, and make them want to keep on reading. He has also given various helpful tips on how to slowly make children switch from bad to good diet.
However, since the book has a lot of useful information, most of which would need to be revisited time and again, I feel that it would have been quite helpful had such information been shown in summarized tables at the end of those chapters as well.
My wife and I have already started being much more mindful of the food that we consume, and have started slowly replacing packaged and processed foods with natural alternatives. I think that this book should be read and also kept as a reference guide by parents of growing children. This book serves as a comprehensive guide for anyone looking to facilitate their children’s proper growth.
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